GPS BUSINESS NEWS

NDrive ships iPhone nav app with oblique aerial imagery

Ludovic Privat — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:12:00 +0100

Portuguese mobile navigation supplier NDrive released today NDrive London in the iPhone app store, a new navigation application that includes oblique aerial imagery for the British capital city center and is available for £5.99.

NDrive offers three navigation modes: auto (fastest and shortest), pedestrian, and adventure. The last mode i...

waze goes global

Ludovic Privat — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:24:00 +0100

After a launch in Israel last year and in the United States last summer, mapping and traffic crowdsourcing start-up waze announced the availability of its platform globally.

Through a community-based approach, waze harnesses driver-generated data in order to build navigable road maps. The waze application runs on users' smartphones, whil...

Clear Channel debuts RDS-TMC Traffic in Mexico

Ludovic Privat — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:13:00 +0100

Clear Channel Radio’s Total Traffic Network (CCTTN) today announced that the very first RDS-TMC navigational service is now live in Mexico City. CCTTN worked with Grupo Acir to launch the service to provide customers with up to the minute traffic data on their Mexico enabled devices.

“We were the first company to broadcast traffic informatio...

Locationet: free to low cost ad-funded offboard nav (UPDATED)

Ludovic Privat — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:15:00 +0100

Israeli navigation provider Locationet is relaunching this month amAze, its off-board navigation solution for mobile phones. Instead of a bare bone, free version, Locationet made the choice to charge a low fee and provide additional services. amAze 5.0 comes at €2.99 for one month and €26.99 for one year. There is also a subscription for €2.49 pe...

Personal navigation launched in Jordan

Ludovic Privat — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:22:00 +0100

Jordan-based IT provider ARCO-TT has launched iNav, its first range of Personal Navigation Devices (PNDs) in Jordan with NAVTEQ map data.

“Launching iNAV for the first time in Jordan is aligned with ARCO-TT's ideology to foster innovation, expand the technology market in Jordan and develop its manpower. Navigation has worldwide appeal due t...

MapmyIndia partners with Survey of India

Ludovic Privat — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:06:00 +0100

Leading Indian digital map provider MapmyIndia, has set up a partnership with Survey of India, the governmental mapping agency. As per the terms, MapmyIndia can use and provide value added services to Survey of India maps. This agreement will enhance MapmyIndia’s map coverage across India, and opens new vistas for business with government an...

Android 2.0 Phone Ships to EU without Google Nav

Ludovic Privat — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:04:00 +0100

Motorola this week announced Motorola Milestone, the European, GSM equivalent of the Droid phone that ships in the United States with the free, turn-by-turn Google Maps Navigation. However, European consumers will have, instead of Google Maps Navigation, a trial license for MOTONAV, Motorola’s navigation software, developed by a third party. Th...

DigitalGlobe Signs Deal with Microsoft for Distribution of Aerial Imagery

Ludovic Privat — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:32:00 +0100

Satellite imagery provider DigitalGlobe announced last week an agreement with Microsoft to distribute high-resolution, 30-cm aerial imagery of contiguous landscapes, initially in the U.S. and Western Europe. These orthophoto mosaics will be available through Bing Maps and through DigitalGlobe channels.

This initiative “expands the curren...

Navx: "we source half a million gas prices per hour"

Ludovic Privat — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:21:00 +0100

Jean Cherbonnier, CEO at Navx, a provider of content to the navigation industry will be speaking at the Navigation and Location conference taking place in San Jose, California on Dec 1 and 2.

Ahead of the conference Cherbonnier gave us his thoughts about the transition between static an...

Video interview with Frédéric Radigué, ViaMichelin (part 2)

Ludovic Privat — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:38:00 +0100

GPS Business News interviewed with Frédéric Radigué, vice president sales and partnerships at ViaMichelin.

The second part of this video interview (watch part 1 here) is focussing on ViaMichelin's traffic information services and how the company sees the competition coming from the United States and the rest of Europe.

Garmin posts encouraging results, returns to EPS growth

Ludovic Privat — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:02:00 +0100

Garmin today reported its financial results for the third quarter 2009 showing a 10% revenue decline (at $781 million), but offset by strong improvements in gross margin (52.4% compared to 44.3% in third quarter 2008) and operating margin (30.3% compared to 24.6%). As a result pro forma earnings per share (excluding the effect of foreign currency...

Smartphone market up 4% in 3Q09

Ludovic Privat — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:35:00 +0100

According to a new study by Canalys, global smartphone shipments grew 3.9% year on year to 41.4 million units in the third quarter of 2009. Eighty percent of this volume was made by Nokia, RIM, Apple and HTC. The market research firm also indicated that over 80% of smartphones now ship with integrated GPS, while more than 75% have Wi-Fi built in...

Orolia to acquire Mcmurdo, location beacon unit of Digital Angel Corp

Ludovic Privat — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:52:00 +0100

Following its recent acquisition of Kannad (read story), Orolia SA is reinforcing its position on the location beacon market in buying McMurdo, a division of Digital Angel Corporation based in the United Kingdom, for $10 million cash. Orolia is a world leader in atomic clocks and synchronization systems.

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Intermap licenses shaded terrain database to MapQuest

Ludovic Privat — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:28:00 +0100

3D digital mapping company Intermap announced that it has licensed shaded terrain products to MapQuest, Inc. Additionally, Intermap will deliver shaded terrain products for Europe and the remainder of the world for subsequent releases on the MapQuest.com consumer Web site and Platform products.

“Intermap’s data products provide depth to the ma...